plagiarize
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In a Sunday editorial, the Boston Globe asked, “Did Claudine Gay plagiarize or not? Harvard should be clear.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
"All it does is plagiarize what has been fed into the system and is not capable of writing anything."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
In the quickly evolving area of AI imagery, Adobe has tried to position itself as a responsible industry citizen by offering products that won’t plagiarize or create offensive imagery.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Weeks after a New York jury found he did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On,” Sheeran was cleared of a similar lawsuit filed by Structured Asset Sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
“We’re not going to plagiarize her. Filmmakers create stories based on true events all the time. It’s a common thing.”
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Like AI art, writing generated by AI both plagiarizes and takes away from real, living artists and their craft, training and livelihood.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023
As it happens with even the best storytellers, Questlove unfortunately — and one hopes unwittingly — at times plagiarizes his own work.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ‘90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ’90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
In leaving home, Shylock's French plagiarizes the Jew's speech to Jessica, even down to the doubt the Jew has about leaving his house at all.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
When the Japanese company decided to build a British-style roadster, it lovingly plagiarized the ’60s-era Lotus Elan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
"The book was pulled from publication because Hill plagiarized portions of it."
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
“AI plagiarized all my books. It seems unlikely that I’ll be ‘left behind’ if I don’t use it, given that it’s trained on work I did years ago,” wrote “Get Well Soon” author Jennifer Wright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
These manuscripts often contain fabricated data, manipulated or stolen images, plagiarized text and sometimes claims that are scientifically impossible.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
Ironically, della Porta was soon complaining that his own discussion of magnetism had been plagiarized by William Gilbert.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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And a Smith College graduation speaker was caught plagiarizing her speech.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
She later wrote a book about the trial, the preface of which she recently admitted to plagiarizing from a draft of a BBC article.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
“If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation,” the Harvard policy states.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
“In a way ChatGPT is plagiarizing the internet because it doesn’t reveal its sources,” Rankin says.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
“One of my first CDs. My sister wanted it, so she gave it to me for Christmas. Do you always resort to plagiarizing song lyrics to impress a girl?”
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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